City and Childhood, urgent conversations

Online streaming, Medialab Prado. Madrid26/05/2020 - 28/05/2020

27th of May 2020
Online streaming, Medialab Prado. Madrid

"Children are the winners of this experience. In such a crisis there are heroes, victims, and winners. The children are bearing up a challenge that is both incomprehensible and intolerable for them." Francesco Tonucci, May 2020.

The setting provoked by the pandemic of coronavirus has generated many uncertainties and malaise that not only create new urgent demands but also make us rethink old questions about the ways of relating to one another and taking care of each other.

Childhood has become one of the core debates in this context of emergency we are living through. We have seen different opinions on children's going out of their houses during quarantine, allowing a fundamental question to emerge: children as human beings who also have rights and the limits or possibilities of an autonomy dependent on adults.

Which are the main learnings related to childhood that we can take from this global crisis? How can we imagine the role of boys and girls in the rebuilding of our urban ecosystem after the crisis?

Through the event School, childhood and city in uncertain times, we will present three round tables, along with Medialab Prado and Asociación La Kalle de Vallecas, that will approach three urgent themes:

inequality and digital gap

the role of school in times of Covid-19

City and Childhood.

In the framework of the project CCSC, hablarenarte will articulate several voices that analyse childhood from different perspectives: academic, activist, cultural, and institutional angles. To do so, we will be joining the following guests:

Francesco Tonucci (La Ciudad de los Niños)

Heike Freire (ecopedagoga)

Jaime Gallego (Participación Juvenil Vallecas)

Zoe López Mediero (Intermediae)

Ricardo Ibarra (Director de la plataformadeinfancia.org)

An approach of childhood as a subject of right and collectively thinking about the new challenges that the new context holds for us.

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